"My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense."

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"My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense."

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"The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline."

Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist

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"The treasure of a lifetime lies in the sacredness of the heart."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Your mind is a gift. Your heart is a prize. Your soul is a blessing. Your life is a reward."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"A rough diamond is still worth more than a polished pebble."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Values, Rough Diamond, Polished Pebble, Value, Worth

"To function in the original intention is to adhere to spiritual principles."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Values, OriginalIntention, SpiritualPrinciples, Purpose, Faith

"Life is defined by time. Time defined moments. Time is priceless gift."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"In so far as we cherish the tangibles, we must value the intangibles. The intangibles, though as latent as they may seem to be, they are solemnly tangible."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?"

Paul Wellstone, American Politician

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"No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools."

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"So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime."

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"The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end."

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"It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy."

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"But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith."

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"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"

Art, History, Culture, Literature

"Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year."

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"Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability."

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"Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP."

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"My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help."

Time, Life, Mother, Ability